Master of Arts [M.A] [English Studies Eighteenth-Century Literature and Romanticism] From Queen Mary, University of London

This MA pathway combines close reading of canonical and non-canonical writers with interdisciplinary study of the broader culture of the 18thÊand early 19thÊcenturies, examining the history of literature and criticism alongside developments in philosophy, politics, history, and other art forms. We explore the popular culture of the coffee house and tavern, the political world on the street and in parliament, the vocations of women poets and polemicists, polite society and its management of the emotions, epistolary culture, religious dissent, and the metropolitan life of London. We also study the origins and impact of the Romantic movement, poetics and manifestos, generic innovation and experiment, periodical culture, Romantic science and medicine, relations between British and European Romanticism, the French Revolution and its aftershocks, and the literary and artistic culture of the Regency.

The pathway combines specially-designed core and elective modules with the opportunity to select further options from across the whole range of MA modules on offer in the Department of English.ÊYou may also opt to take a cognate elective module offered by other Schools in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and by other Colleges of the University of London.